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2017 Short Story Prize and Flash Fiction Prize Longlists

Many thanks to everyone that entered the 2017 RW Short Story Prize and RW Flash Fiction Prize. There were double the amount of entries this year and we’ve been busy reading away.

Readings are done anonymously until the shortlists are chosen and only then do we discover who has written what, so only the story titles are listed here. Congratulations to all the writers who see their story titles here.

Longlist RW Short Story Prize

Alan and Barbara – A Life in Fives

An Entry in the Yellow Book

Boys Outside

Calvo Marsh

Dress Rehearsal

Home Improvements

Just a Storm

Magee’s Island

Making the Grades

Options for the Ridiculously Poor

Paleo

Requiem

Roast Potatoes

The Distance

The Good Brother

The Hazard

The Killing Moon

The Martha Rhymes

The Land of Bondage

The Riddle

The Wish

There Are Some Things You Can’t Say to the Person You Can Say Anything To

Thou Shalt Not Covet

Thou Shalt Not Kill

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Longlist RW Flash Fiction Prize

A Perfect Fit

Blind Insight

Butterfly Kisses

Chronic

Cinders After Midnight

Curl Up and Die

Digital Detox

Dirty Blonde

Impermanent Facts

Inside Story

Measles

Measured

Not My Fault

Note to Chinese Dad

On the Threshold

The City of Stories

The Heart of Winter

Time Difference, Japan

We Don’t Understand the Machines We Have Created

While My Wife is Out of Town

Well done and good luck for the next round to all the writers whose stories are listed here.

We will be re-reading and announcing the shortlists in January 2018. The 10 shortlisted stories in each category will then go to the judges to read and the winners will be announced in February 2018. Alison Moore is judging the short story category and Tania Hershman the flashes.

Prizes and copies of the anthology, which is being published by Retreat West Books, will be presented to everyone on the shortlists at an event in September 2018. Details of this will be available in the new year.

Once the winners have been announced the details of the deadlines and judges for the 2018 Prizes will go live.